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  • pasdechance@jlai.lutoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it getting less and less worthwhile to learn a language with the rise of AI?
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    13 days ago

    It’s what I’ve been using since the early 2000’s. Whatever laptop I can get for free with boring Linux. I teach all my classes across multiple establishments with it. Battery still lasts over 9 hours. Beats the Raspberry Pi I used as a computer for 6 months!

    I do have a colleague that installed one of the LLMs on their computer to play around with translation and live subtitles, and another who claims ChatGPT taught him French. Maybe there is something to it, but I draw the line at using AI because, as I said, I forbid it in my classes.

  • pasdechance@jlai.lutoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it getting less and less worthwhile to learn a language with the rise of AI?
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    14 days ago

    I am an ESL teacher. Generative AI is making things complicated for us, but it cannot replace learning the language. Right now, things like ChatGPT are presented as some sort of solution, but it is so far off and sometimes too obvious.

    Like you mentioned, you think and reason differently in different languages. Plus, some people just love learning languages.

    Aside: I am of the opinion that OpenAI and ChatGPT will disappear within 2 to 3 years. Their investors will abandon them leaving them drowning in debt, Sam Altman will face the same fate as Elizabeth Holmes. At some point his grift of asking for more money, hardware, electricity, water, etc., will be revealed.